page_title: Rade Končar
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Rade Končar / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Фотографисано 14. септембра 2010. године у Загребу. Аутор: Пламен
context_page_description: Rade Končar was a Croatian Serb politician and leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia and Dalmatia during the early stages of World War II in Yugoslavia. He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1934 and was arrested in 1936 when the Belgrade branch of the party was banned by Yugoslav authorities. After serving one year of hard labour in Sremska Mitrovica prison he was released and elected political secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Croatia in Zagreb. In October 1940, he was made a member of the central committee of the KPJ at the Fifth National Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
  Following the April 1941 Axis occupation of Yugoslavia Končar took part in the anti-fascist uprising which retook areas from German control in Serbia, and personally led attacks against Axis forces in Independent State of Croatia. Having relocated to Governorate of Dalmatia in October 1941, in November 1941 he was ambushed by fascist agents, arrested and beaten. The Ustaše disclosed his identity to Italian authorities who then put him on trial.
context_section_description: Končar was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia by the Communists. The August 1942 issue of Proleter named him first on the list of the first ten People's Heroes. He quickly became one of the greatest Partisan icons. The later conventional depiction of his sentencing and execution says that, when asked whether he would ask for clemency, Končar said Milosti ne tražim, niti bih vam je dao ("I will not ask for mercy nor would I have it on you"); when they aimed their guns at his back, he said Kukavice, pucajte u prsa ("Cowards, shoot me in the chest"). 
  A military unit of the Yugoslav Partisans, the 13th Proletarian Brigade Rade Končar, was named after him and fought on the Yugoslav Front. It was composed primarily of Croats, most of whom were Roman Catholic. Končar was the only ethnic Serb leader of the SKH until the election of Stanko Stojčević in 1988. His only son, also named Rade Končar, was a prominent politician in post-war Yugoslavia.
  Rade Končar Enterprise, today the Končar Group, and Rade Koncar the largest producer of electrical equipment in Yugoslavia during the 1970s. The Electrical Engineering Highschool "Rade Končar" in Belgrade is also named after him. Končar-class missile boat of former Yugoslav Navy was also named after him.
  In November 2018, a 65-year-old man was injured after he attempted to topple a bust of Končar in the city of Split. When asked by the media why he had toppled the bust, the man replied, "I have nothing against [Končar] personally. But I do not like Communists. I do not like Partisans, Communists, Serbs..."
caption: Monument to Končar, designed by Vanja Radauš, stands in Zagreb
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